Joe's Makerbot

This will mark the 3rd time I've had to replace the ceramic tape on my extruder heads, and it was just as painful as the first two t...

So it turns out my Makerbot is just fine . Remember that build platform upgrade I did a few weeks back? The removable glass platforms that ...

When I can finally afford to replace this Makerbot, either because 3D printers have gotten cheap or I've become independently wealthy,...

This is by far the most annoying bit of maintenance that the Makerbot needs. The ceramic tape is held on only by Kapton and frequently exp...

It's time to fix the ceramic tape. No patch job this time. There is embarrassingly little written up on how to do this properly. The ...

Sometimes finding what's wrong with the makerbot is just a matter of knowing where to look. In this case the problem was between the key...